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Elsa Morante
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Film & TV
Roma, Italy
Known for
- La Storia: il romanzo dello scandalo — Herself (archive footage)2024
- Accattone — Una Detenuta1961
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1912-08-18 ) 18 August 1912, Rome, Italy
- Died
- 25 November 1985 (1985-11-25) (aged 73), Rome, Italy
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Notable works
- La storia (History)
- Notable awards
- Viareggio Prize (1948), Strega Prize (1957)
- Spouse
- Alberto Moravia ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elsa
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Place of death
- Rome
- Spouse
- Alberto Moravia
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Award
- Viareggio Prize
- Notable work
- History
- Field of work
- poetry
- Image
- Moravia & Morante.jpg
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1912-08-18
- date of death
- 1985-11-25
- Commons category
- Elsa Morante
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- relative
- Laura Morante
- writing language
- Italian
- medical condition
- depression
- name in native language
- Elsa Morante
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Elsa Morante, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Elsa Morante ( pronounced [ˈelsa moˈrante, ˈɛl-]; 18 August 1912 – 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel La storia (History) is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time.
Life and career
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